Bojana Kunst

Bojana Kunst is a theorist of performance, theatre and contemporary dance — with a special focus on the late 20th and 21st centuries — dramaturge and teacher. She is a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, where she heads the international master’s program in Choreography and Performance. She lives between Germany and Slovenia. Her research focuses on the philosophy and theory of performance and dance, the role of the body in performance practice, the relationship between performance and politics and various theoretical and practical aspects of dramaturgy. She is particularly interested in research-oriented alternative and experimental theatrical formats, collaborative and dramaturgical processes in self-organised forms of performance and dance creation. It approaches performance and dance practice as a field of knowledge that can contribute to the way we think, write and produce theory.